"Where the Wild Daffodils Grow" - Updated Historical Novel Dramatizes Life in Tasmania
Where the Wild Daffodils Grow was written by the late Hannah Amelia Holbrook, with an assist many years later by her granddaughter, Elizabeth Rickards.
Hannah wrote several unpublished manuscripts before she died of lung cancer at the age of 53. Her granddaughter, Elizabeth, was entrusted with Hannah’s works, but never examined them closely because she married young and had six children to raise. She says: “Now retired, I finally had the time to look at my grandmother’s scripts. I was impressed and added to her first book, giving it a different title. I updated it and put in more romance, sex, and drama. I think she would be very proud of the end result. I’m only sorry that neither she nor my parents are alive to see the finished book, but I hope they are with me in spirit.”
In their collaborative novel Where the Wild Daffodils Grow, a group of people from various walks of life including convicts, make the long journey from England and Ireland to a new future. In doing so, they experience romance and violence during the 1800s through to the 1950s in a small country village in Tasmania. The story line is separated into two sections, the first book covers the backgrounds of the individuals and their family history and how they arrive in the same place. The second book tells of the Cavenders and their extended family. The book was certainly worth the wait!
WHERE THE WILD DAFFODILS GROW (ISBN: 978-1-62212-486-2) is now available for $20.95 and can be ordered through the publisher’s website: http://sbpra.com/ElizabethRickardsandHannahAmeliaHolbrook or at www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com.
WHOLESALERS: This book is distributed by Ingram Books and other wholesale distributors. Contact your representative with the ISBN for purchase. Wholesale purchase for retailers, universities, libraries, and other organizations is also available through the publisher; please email bookorder@aeg-online-store.com
About the Authors: Hannah Holbrook [nee Gillam] was one of thirteen children and had a love of life. She first married William Eaves where they resided in Waterloo, the village mentioned in this book, and they produced a son and daughter. She was tragically widowed at an early age and then married Harold Holbrook.
Elizabeth Rickards is the daughter of Harvey Mewett and Yvonne [nee Eaves], and lived in Victoria, Australia, until her early teens, when the family moved to Tasmania, coincidentally just up the road from where her mother was born. So in a way, she was going home. The author married Dennis O’Neill and together they produced five boys and a girl, including twins. They divorced and she married Robert Rickards, who died suddenly in 2005 at the commencement of a long-awaited holiday. With writing experience from a previous book about the history of local football, she now had time to devote to her grandmother’s scripts.
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